Important Committees in News:

1. Urjit Patel Committee - to examine the current monetary policy framework

2. Mukul Mudgal member panel- to probe IPL spot-fixing
3. Nachiket Mor - committee on comprehensive financial services for small
businesses and low-income households.
4. Justice A.P. Shah committee : to head panel on road safety
5. Anil Kaushal committee: to examine the recommendations made by the TRAI on
pricing of Spectrum.
6. Bimal Jalan panel : to scrutinize applications for new bank licenses.
7. Parthasarathi Shome. for Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC),
Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance
8. Kirit Parikh panel : on fuel pricing has suggested that the diesel prices should be
increased by Rs 1-1.50 a litre every month as against the 45-50 paise monthly hike
followed currently.
9. K U.B. Rao : the idea of setting up Bullion Bank or Bullion Corporation of India
10. C Rangarajan Panel - recommended the pricing of natural gas by a complex
methodology of arriving at an average of International gas hub prices
11. Arvind Mayaram Panel: report on the alleged irregularities at the National Spot
Exchange Ltd (NSEL)
12. Arvind Mayaram Committee for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII)
13. Suma Verma Committee - to update, and revise the Banking Ombudsman
Scheme, 2006
14. Damodran Committee: on improvement of customer services in banks
15. Shri M. Narasimham Committee: on Banking Sector Reforms
16. Shri Raghuram Rajan Committee: on Financial Sector Reforms,
17. Shri B. Mahapatra Committee: to review the existing prudential guidelines on
restructuring of advances by banks/financial institutions
18. Shri Aditya Puri Committee: Dissemination of Credit Information
19. Shri K.U.B. Rao Committee: recommended aligning gold import regulations
20. K M Chandrasekhar committee : for rationalization of foreign investment
norms
21. Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee: to study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an
additional factor for authentication of card present transactions
22. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities
to enter India
23. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of Indias first womens bank
24. Committee On Uttarakhand Floods: The committee headed by AK Ganju
(Chairman, Ganga Flood Control Commission, Patna)
25. JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.
26. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media
30. SK Srivastava Committee: to formulate a policy on public-private partnership
model to raise coal output
31. K M Chandrasekhar Committee for rationalization of foreign investment
norms
32. Janakiraman Committee - To investigate the security transactions of the bank
33. MS Ahluwalia committee - to evaluate aspects related to set up of Nalanda
University
34. Sitakant Mahapatra committee - for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth
schedule of constitution
35. N R Narayana Murthy committee - for evaluation of corporate sector
participation in Higher Education.
36. C Rangarajan committee - for poverty scale estimates in the country
37. MB Shah committee - for inspection of illegal mining activities
38. N Rangachary committee - to examine taxation policies for I.T. sector
39. Parthasarathi Shome committee - implementation of GAAR (General Anti
Avoidance Rule)
40. Deepak Parekh committee for Financing Infrastructure sector
41. Naresh Chandra committee - 14 member task force on security issues
42. Bhandari Committee - Reconstruction of RRBs
43. RS Gujral Committee - suggest measures to boost msme export